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Michael Rhodes smoked cigarettes for 50 years, got lung cancer and died. We all know what happened here. We also all know this death. Everybody in this room know somebody who has fought the same battle and died this agonizing, brutal, excru...(断音了,原词是excruciating)
But, emotion has no play here.
Michael Rhodes was 11 years old, when he started smoking. It was 1948. At that time, there was no known risk, and even if there were, at 11, he certainly lacked the capacity to assume it. And after that, he was addicted. They manufacture them to be addictive.
In just last few years, they've increased the amount of nicotine in average cigarette by 11.6% to make it even more addictive. Recently, we learned that tobacco companies have been adding an ammonia-based compound to cigarettes for years to increase absorption of nicotine. It's basically the same principle used in crack cocaine.


